UEFA/Youth League: record attendance of 50,000 spectators for FC Cologne - Inter Milan in the Round of 32

The 2025-26 Youth League Round of 32 match between 1. FC Köln (Bundesliga) and FC Inter Milan (Serie A Enilive) (1-3) was held in front of a sell-out RheinEnergie Stadion (50,000 capacity) on Wednesday 04/02/2026 (kick-off at 18:00 CET).

This is a new attendance record for the competition. The previous record dated back to April 2025, when 40,368 spectators attended the quarter-final between Trabzonspor (Turkish Süper Lig) and Inter Milan at the Şenol Güneş Spor Kompleksi in Trabzon.

Tickets for the match in Cologne "were sold out more than a week before the fixture," said the club. 1. FC Köln, which plays in the stadium with the seventh-largest capacity in the Bundesliga, has a 100% fill rate for its home league games since the start of the 2025-26 season.

• 1 FC Cologne is the fourth-largest club in Germany by number of members (155,000 members), behind Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga) and FC Schalke 04 (2.Bundesliga German second division. 18 clubs. ).

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